Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

One seed

Big Tree by Brian Selznick

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While I did not completely love the grainy illustrations of Big Tree by Brian Selznick, I understand the reason for them and appreciate them. And there were several that were more fleshed out, but they felt few and far between. The story is a mature environmental tale with spiritual elements that is told by two seeds from a seed pod from Mama Sycamore. It does not sound like it makes sense, but it does, even if sometimes the flow of the story felt to be not as […]

Don’t find evil so attractive, Evie!

Assistant To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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A “BookTok sensation” I actually enjoyed. It’s a Christmas miracle! Evie Sage has a family to support but no employment prospects until a chance encounter with The Villain changes her life. She’s now the personal assistant to the kingdom’s deadliest foe. Evie finds that she has a talent for arranging daring heists and managing the evil minions. All is not well in her world though; Evie must search the office to find the traitor trying to spoil The Villain’s dastardly plans against the king. Full […]

“We all have the right to be recognised for who we are.”

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

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4.5 stars For most of her life, Viola Carroll was forced to live a lie. Then she went off to the Napoleonic wars, with her best friend and constant companion Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood, and because of a horrible accident where she was presumed dead by everyone who knew her, she decided to just let most people assume her former self was indeed dead (so her title and estates could pass to her brother), making it possible for her to finally live […]

Cat Transformations and Found Family

Spell Bound by FT Lukens

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Rook has a secret – he’s non-magical, yet a powerful sorcerer has taken him on as her apprentice. But when the Magical Consortium comes down on them for breaking the law, he ends up going on the run with Sun, the apprentice of a rival sorcerer. I  read FT Lukens’s So This is Ever After last year, which I gave an A for the romance but found the other aspects of the story less impressive. But I’ll try most things twice, and intrigued by the […]

I keep finding new books to read and then review!

Table Titans Club by Scott Kurtz

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I like a good graphic novel. I like ones that capture relatable subjects and can be humorous. And of course, I like serious ones too, but I was in the mood for something that was funny. And Table Titans Club (I am assuming it is the first in a series, since how it ended) looked funny. Scott Kurtz did not disappoint.  The story of three friends (Alan, Darius and Andrew) who ask the new girl Val (though reluctantly on Alan’s part), and the dismay of their sort-of friend Kate, to […]



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